Strainer for coffee-pots.



Patented Dec. 31, 1912.

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GEORGE OTIS TUCKER, 0F CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS.

STBAINER FOR COFFEE-POTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31,1912.

Application filed. February 19, 1912. Serial No. 678,510.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE OTIS TUCKER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county ofColes and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Strainers for Coffee-Pots, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in coffeepots and relates more particularly to that class of coffee pots havingremovable strainers.

The object of the invention is to provide a strainer of this naturewhich may be readily inserted in the receptacle and be held firmly inplace over the discharge aperture while in use. And this invention alsoaims to generally improve this class of devices to render them moreuseful and commercially desirable.

With these and other objects in View, as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in certain construct-ionsand arrangement of parts that I shall hereinafter more fully describeand claim.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is avertical sectional view of a coffee pot with my device applied thereto;Fig. 2 is a top View of a coffee pot with the cover open and my devicein position; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 8-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4;is a perspective view of the strainer.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and designated in the accompanying drawing by like referencecharacters.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 1 designates an ordinary coffeepot having a cover 2 and a handle 3. The side of the pot opposite thehandle has a V shaped discharge aperture 4 adjacent its upper edge.Secured to the outside of the pot and surrounding the opening 4 is aspout 5. The portion of the coffee pot wall adjacent the sides of theopening 4 is bent slightly inwardly forming a rib 5' and leaving agroove 6 between the inner face of the spout and the rib. This groove isadaptedto receive the strainer 7. This semi-conical strainer consists ofa flat, triangular, perforated wall 8 and a downwardly tapering,transversely curved perforated wall 9, joined at their side edges so asto form a flange portion 10. In order that the top of the strainer maybe disposed in a horizontal plane when in use, I make the length of thecurved wall, from its bottom edge to the middle of the top curved edge,somewhat greater than the corresponding distance on the flat wall. \Vhenthe strainer is in use the flange 10 engages the groove 6 and the curvedwall 9 projects inwardly.

To enable the cover to be closed tightly and hold the strainer firmly inposition I provide the flange 11 of said cover with slots 12. The sidesof these slots engage the outer face of flange 10 and the upper edge ofrib 5 thus preventing any movement of the strainer.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing it will be seen that I have provided a simple,durable andeflicient strainer which may be readily withdrawn from the coffee potfor cleaning purposes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

The combination with a cofiee pot provided in one side thereof with aV-shaped opening, a spout secured to the coffee pot surrounding theopening, the marginal edges of said opening being bent inwardly andadapted to cooperate with the spout to form a groove, a strainercomprising a perforated plate and a transversely curved perforated plateconnected together and formed with side flanges adapted to seat withinthe said groove of the coffee pot, a cover provided in its flange withslots adapted to straddle the marginal edges of the V-shaped opening andthe strainer disposed therein to hold the latter against displacement.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

GEORGE OTIS TUCKER.

Witnesses:

T. L. GALBREATH, S. H. WILKINS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0.

